Best Socket Material?

[fdegrove]

Hi,

Corbato,

I'm quite familiar with both sample you have:

One word of warning, the ceramic one is O.K, my only quible with it is that the solderlugs are rather flimsy and break of rather easily.

The phenolic one should be slightly better in that department and all in all for the asking price you can't really go wrong.

Cheers,

[Tony]

hi corbato,

i need about 20 of those sockets, please fire me an email on how to get those...thanks

[valveluver]

I like ceramic sockets with gold pins. If anyone says that the socket insulating material has an effect on the sonic performance, I would like to know how. The gold is good especially for the filament connections. Some audio output tubes utilize 5 amperes of filament current.

I work with really big tubes for a living so I have seen a lot.

[EC8010]

Originally posted by valveluver
If anyone says that the socket insulating material has an effect on the sonic performance, I would like to know how.

Leakage from anode to (high impedance) grid.

[brother_maynard]

I just bought a CNC mini mill for making sockets and other things to a higher level. [/B]

Wow this is cool, which brand mill is it?

[dsavitsk]

Originally posted by brother_maynard

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